Gold-crowned warbler
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Golden-crowned warbler ( Phylloscopus ricketti ) |
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The Sulfur-breasted warbler ( Phylloscopus ricketti ) is a singing bird from the kind of Laubsänger ( phylloscopus ). The art epithet honors the British banker and amateur ornithologist Charles Boughey Rickett (1851–1943), who worked as a bird collector in Asia for a long time.
features
With a size of 10 to 11 centimeters, the gold-crowned warbler belongs to the medium-sized warbler species. It is characterized by a bright yellow underside and also bright yellow head stripes. Protruding head drawings can be seen on the black sides of the crown. A greenish-yellow stripe runs across the middle of the crown. Sometimes gray lines can be seen on the neck. The long stripe above the eyes is bright yellow. The reins and the eye stripe are black. The yellow cheeks and ear covers are washed out olive. The top is bright green-olive. The yellow tips of the large upper wing-coverts form a wing band.
distribution
The breeding areas are in central, southern and eastern China (in southern Gansu and Sichuan , east to Hubei and Fujian , south to Guizhou , in northern Guangxi and in eastern Guangdong ) as well as in central Laos and in northern Vietnam (central Annam ). As a winter visitor, the species was found in northern and eastern Thailand , southern Laos and northern Vietnam (western and eastern Tonkin , northern Annam).
habitat
The gold-crowned warbler lives in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, juniper forests, sparse vegetation and stunted bushes on slopes. It can be observed at altitudes up to 1500 m.
Way of life
Little is known about its breeding behavior and migration. The breeding season is between May and July. Eggs were found in June and nestlings in July. The nest is on the ground between rubble or about one meter above the ground in the vegetation. After the breeding season, the species moves south. The gold-crowned warbler goes in search of food individually or in pairs in the canopy. It feeds on small invertebrates. It is very active, running and hopping between the leaves and gathering its food from the leaves and branches. It often hunts insects from the treetops.
Outside the breeding season it is often associated with other bird species.
status
The IUCN classifies the gold-crowned warbler as not endangered (least concern). It is described as not common in the breeding areas in China. In the wintering areas in central Laos, in north-central Vietnam, in Thailand and in Indochina it is an infrequent or locally frequent guest.
literature
- Franz Bairlein : Family Sylviidae (Old World Warblers). P. 670 In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and DA Christie: Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 978-84-96553-06-4
Web links
- Videos, photos and sound recordings for Sulfur-Breasted Warbler in the Internet Bird Collection
- Phylloscopus ricketti inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2014.